Tag: Rutherford Institute

Metaverse just Big Brother in disguise: Total control

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Welcome to the Matrix (i.e. The metaverse), where reality is virtual, freedom is only as free as one’s technological overlords allow, and artificial intelligence is slowly rendering humanity unnecessary, inferior and obsolete. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, sees this digital universe, the

Police misconduct can include sex trafficking

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead We are a Nation on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Undeniably, the blowback from COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates continues to reverberate around the country, impacting the Nation’s struggling workplaces, choking the economy and justifying all manner of authoritarian tyrannies being inflicted on

Trappings of the police state really in plain sight

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead We are living in an age of mayhem, madness, and monsters. Monsters with human faces walk among us. Many of them work for the U.S. government. What we are dealing with today is an authoritarian beast that has outgrown its chains and will

Essential: Standing up for truth, justice, against tyranny

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead America is breaking down. This breakdown, triggered by polarizing circus politics, media-fed mass hysteria, racism, classism, fascism, fear-mongering, political correctness, cultural sanitation, virtue signaling, a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of growing government corruption and brutality, a growing economic divide

Authoritarian notion: The government knows best

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”—Simone Weil, philosopher and political activist We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in

Police qualified immunity quickly can diminish rights

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish, the ones enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not have police seize

U.S. government has the means and muscle for detention

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead It’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when. The following is what we know: The government has the means, the muscle, and the motivation, to detain individuals who resist its orders and

Fear fatal tool of fascistic regimes fundamentally

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead The United States is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Normally mild-mannered individuals caught up in the throes of this disease have

The argument should be to make America free again

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead The Constitution of the United States represents the classic solution to one of humankind’s greatest political problems: That is, how does a small group of states combine into a strong union without the states losing their individual powers and surrendering their control over

In the last 20 years, U.S. government has eroded liberty

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”, Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN What

Endless war clearly not in best interest of the U.S.

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead It’s time to bring all our troops home. Bring them home from Somalia, Iraq and Syria. Bring them home from Germany, South Korea, and Japan. Bring them home from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Oman. Bring them home from Niger, Chad, and Mali. Bring

Government assaults on Fourth Amendment rights continue

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead The government has a history of shamelessly exploiting national emergencies for its own nefarious purposes. Terrorist attacks, mass shootings, civil unrest, economic instability, pandemics, natural disasters: The government has been taking advantage of such crises for years in order to gain greater power

Distracted and divided, we see tyranny building, A to Z

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a convenient, traumatic, devastating, distraction. The American people, the permanent underclass in the United States, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid

Litmus test, show your papers, vaccine passports, next

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Imagine it: A national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status, but allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: By gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status. It is the

Freedom’s best aim: Make all governments responsive

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead It is time to recalibrate the government. For years, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution or the rights of the citizenry. By “government,” I’m not referring to the

New narrative in the U.S., however still enslaved suspects

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead History has a funny way of circling back on itself. The facts, figures, faces, and technology, may change from era to era, but the dangers remain the same. This year is no different, whatever the politicians and talking heads may say to the

Second Amendment real tug-of-war: Master or servant

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” —The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution You can largely determine where a person will fall

The Erik Blair Diaries a follow-up to Orwell’s 1984 book

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” — George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: The fiction of George Orwell (June 25, 1903-January. 21, 1950) has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day, surveillance

Surveillance entanglements by governments can lead to tyranny

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry, purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure, has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government. Think about it.